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The Brooks Falls live cam is in full salmon-gorging season, and this year's breakout star is a first-year cub with strange silvery fur that debuted in July and set the whole internet arguing about bear genetics. Fat Bear Week voting opens September 22, so now's the time to pick your chonk.
A shelter flipped the adoption script and let dogs walk into a room of hopeful strangers and choose whoever they wanted, and the clip has racked up nearly nine million views. Watching a dog make a beeline for one specific person is the purest thing you'll see all week.
A gray squirrel executes a flawless sandwich heist off a picnic blanket, only to have a passing dog snatch the prize straight out of its little paws. Also in the reel: a heron surfing on a hippo, and a capuchin having a full conversation with its own reflection.
A duck in a full Mexico soccer jersey and custom socks waddling the streets of Mexico City became a national obsession, and the little guy got invited to the National Palace to meet the president. A duck. At the palace. In socks.
Half an hour of animals who did not get the memo about which species they're supposed to hang out with, including a giant pig who goes hiking with her Labrador best friend. The Rottweiler who is fully convinced a litter of guinea pigs are her babies is the emotional knockout punch.
